diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/ranking/TiesStrategy.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/ranking/TiesStrategy.java
index 92aab7f11..cc827ec84 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/ranking/TiesStrategy.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/ranking/TiesStrategy.java
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ package org.apache.commons.math.stat.ranking;
* of the last occurrence. For example, (1,3,4,3) is ranked as (1,3,4,3)
*
AVERAGE - Tied values are assigned the average of the applicable ranks.
* For example, (1,3,4,3) is ranked as (1,2.5,4,2.5)
- * AVERAGE - Tied values are assigned a random integer rank from among the
+ * RANDOM - Tied values are assigned a random integer rank from among the
* applicable values. The assigned rank will always be an integer, (inclusively)
- * between the values retured by the MINIMUM and MAXIMUM strategies.
+ * between the values returned by the MINIMUM and MAXIMUM strategies.
*
*
* @since 2.0